When do the training wheels come off?

[Nixxe]

This is pretty accurate.

There was a point in time when the regular dungeons were a bit of a challenge in 2.0. But since then, our potencies have gone up each expansion and its rendered alot of these dungeons trivial because of it. I do remember running Stone Vigil and normally having to Sleep one of the large birds in the 3x pull or watch your tank get wrecked. Or switch from AOE to ST on the sprite pulls so they don't Blizzardx3 your tank to death.

Right now dungeons from 15-60 could do with a bit of scaling, increase mob hp by 25-40% and their damage by 10-20%. And have a bit more restrictive item lvl scaling when you're scaled from a higher level. For example, if you're doing Auram Vale, you should be scaled to item level 45 or 50, not any higher.

I also believe any content not in the current expansion should have item level scaling to 5pts higher than its minimum (or its level if it had no minimum). I like the idea of getting better gear to make things easier, but we can have that for current expansion stuff. Take off those benefits for old content and let us have our nostalgia back. And I don't believe everyone would struggle, they would simply adapt, as they did when all the content was current.

Blizzard already did something like this. The only thing it accomplished was making the content more tedious. You can't make intrinsically easy content difficult by making it take longer. You can certainly make it less pleasant to run though.